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Boy suspended for making shooting motion with finger

A family in Maryland is outraged after their 6-year-old was suspended for making a shooting motion with his finger.

The incident happened just days after the Connecticut school shootings. In a letter, school officials described what happened as a serious incident where the boy threatened to shoot a student.

Rodney Lynch said the trouble started earlier that day.

“I went to my desk, got my scissors and pretended they were a gun,” Lynch said.

Lynch said he was sent to the school office again for something similar and then a third time.

“She was pointing her fingers and did this, and went pow, so I did this. And I got sent to the office again,” Lynch said.

Family attorney Robin Ficker said they are appealing the one-day suspension, calling it an over-reaction.

“It is on his permanent record that he threatened to shoot a student; five years from now, someone's going to look at that and say this is a bad kid. He's been branded. He's been thrown under the bus,” Ficker said.

The boy's family wants his school record cleared and may ask for him to be sent to a different school.

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